You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?

I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.